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DICONET NPOT: An Impairments Aware Tool for Planning and Managing Dynamic Optical Networks

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The impact of physical layer impairments in the planning and operation of all-optical (and translucent) networks is the consideration of the DICONET project. The impairment-aware network planning and operation tool (NPOT) is the main outcome of the DICONET project, and is explained in detail in this paper. We describe the key building blocks of NPOT, consisting of the network description repositories, the physical layer performance evaluator, the impairment-aware routing and wavelength assignment (IA-RWA) engines, the component placement modules, the failure handling and the integration of NPOT in the control plane. Also, we present several experimental results for NPOT, evaluating the performance of its IA-RWA engines.

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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this paper for their constructive comments. Neither the entire paper nor any part of its content has been published or accepted for publication elsewhere. It has not been submitted to any other journal.

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The work described in this paper was carried out with the support of the DICONET (“Dynamic Impairment Constraint Optical Networking”) (http://www.DICONET.eu) project, funded by the European Commission through the 7th ICT-Framework Program (FP7).

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Azodolmolky, S., Kokkinos, P., Angelou, M. et al. DICONET NPOT: An Impairments Aware Tool for Planning and Managing Dynamic Optical Networks. J Netw Syst Manage 20, 116–133 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-011-9220-2

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